The new 2008 U.S. News Law School Tax Rankings are out and available on-line here. U.S. News ranked the Top 25 this year (with ties); here are the Top 10:

1. NYU (#1 last year)

2. Florida (#2)

3. Georgetown (#3)

4. Northwestern (#4)

5. Harvard (#5)

6. Miami (#5)

7. UCLA (#7)

8. Boston University (#7)

9. Texas (#15)

10. San Diego (#9)

10. Virginia (#11)

10. Yale (#11)

The biggest upward moves are:

+6 Texas (#9)

+3 Loyola-L.A. (#16)

The biggest downward moves are:

-6 USC (#21)

-5 U. Washington (#18)

-4 Stanford (#13)

-2 Denver (#21)

Last year, U.S. News ranked the Top 21 schools. Five schools that were unranked last year made this year's Top 25: Duke (#14), Penn (#18), Boston College (#21), Columbia (#21), and Florida State (#21).

One school that was in last year's Top 21 dropped out of the rankings this year: Chicago (#17 last year)

The 12 schools with graduate tax programs included in the rankings are the same as last year:

1. NYU (#1 last year)

2. Florida (#2)

3. Georgetown (#3)

4. Northwestern (#4)

5. Miami (#5)

6. Boston University (#6)

7. San Diego (#7)

8. Loyola-L.A. (#10)

9. SMU (#9)

10. U. Washington (#8)

11. Villanova (#10)

12. Denver (#10)

Loyola-L.A. is the only graduate tax program to move up (+2) in the rankings; Denver (-2), University of Washington (-2), and Villanova (-1) all moved down.